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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Hear about the latest product and service offerings from the government contracting industry’s leading providers. The Government Technology News section highlights developments in aerospace, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense, C4ISR, cloud, hypersonics, and space.
Altamira Technologies has selected two winning teams during a company-wide competition that challenged employee teams to develop technological concepts to help national security customers address mission challenges.
Jeff Herro, senior vice president for business development at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, said the company expects to conduct the initial flight test of its unmanned “loyal wingman†combat jet in the first week of March, Reuters reported Thursday.
Northrop Grumman has delivered a total of 200K units of a sensor designed to detonate general purpose explosives in mid-air. The company said Thursday it has reached this milestone for the DSU-33 proximity sensor, which began production in 2000 and continued to be produced over the past 18 years.
IBM has made its Watson artificial intelligence platform available across all cloud environments offered by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and other cloud service providers, Nextgov reported Thursday. Claude Yusti, head of the AI practice at IBM’s federal branch, said the move could help federal agencies advance AI adoption and circumvent barriers to data access and information sharing.
Forcepoint has introduced a cybersecurity offering designed to help government and enterprise customers secure data, applications and business processes as they move to a cloud computing environment.
The Virginia Contracting Activity has issued a request for information on potential sources that could meet the Defense Intelligence Agency’s requirements to improve the intelligence community’s knowledge management platform. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says VACA looks for potential contractors that could deploy the Intelligence Community Knowledge Management Tool across multiple networks worldwide and deliver new capabilities to users with a focus on automating analytic workflows.
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U.S. Army Contracting Command has begun to solicit concept papers for a Department of Defense-sponsored research program that seeks to increase DoD's knowledge of computing systems and its ability to address future challenges.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has launched an Opioid Detection Challenge that seeks to terminate the flow of opioid into the U.S. without affecting the transport of mail.
A joint venture between Collins Aerospace and Elbit Systems has delivered the 1,000th unit of a helmet mounted display system designed for F-35 pilots.
HDT Global has collaborated with Symmetry to develop an enterprise information technology application on the Azure Government Cloud platform as part of the former's efforts to address strict regulatory requirements of military and civilian customers.
